prendre sur soi
\pʁɑ̃.dʁə syʁ swa\
The verdict
“prendre sur soi” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Répondre de quelque chose, s’en charger ; faire quelque chose de son chef, sans y être autorisé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prendre sur soi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɑ̃.dʁə syʁ swa\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prendre sur soi” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prendre sur soi is 15 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃.dʁə syʁ swa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for prendre sur soi in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is prendre sur soi, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -S-U-R- -S-O-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Répondre de quelque chose, s’en charger ; faire quelque chose de son chef, sans y être autorisé.
- 2Accepter la responsabilité d’une faute, d’une erreur.
- 3Accepter de supporter (ce qui nous était extérieur).
- 4Se retenir, se faire violence, se contraindre.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -S-U-R- -S-O-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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